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Anastasis · 04-10-2006, 20:12

Thanks all for your responses. It is encouraging to know that I am not alone in being hit like this and in particular by the same spammer, but of course it is annoying and frustrating for all of us.

In answer to Andy, thanks for your help and advice on this.

I realise that the spammers are not using my domain, but are spoofing it by putting a name (which seems to be series of random characters) @ my domain in the reply address of their emails.

At the moment I am getting 10-15 a day, all from the same source it would appear, but all bounces from addresses they have sent to that are being returned to me. If that is the quantity of bounces they are getting, then goodness knows how many in total they are sending to valid addresses all of which are seeing my domain as the sender of spam email which is very annoying.

Yes, I did think of stopping the catch-all forwarding on my domain, but to do that as you said I need to find all the addresses I have used and want to receive email for, which I think is likely to be a big task and has the potential for missing some. Whilst it would be good to not have these emails bouncing to me, they are now mostly being redirected into my spam folder, and at least I can continue to monitor their frequency and also respond to anyone who might complain that I am sending them spam.

Is there no way of detecting the real sender of these emails? I have had a look at the source data in the emails, but cannot fathom who this might be if that information is in there. The reason I ask is that maybe, if the spammer's ISP can be identified it might be possible to contact the ISP to show them that one of their accounts is spamming. Maybe some ISPs have anti-spam policies in place that cover misuse by their account holders.

In answer to SMHarman, my domain was purchased from 123-reg and is currently hosted with Dream Hosting, so I don't think there is any pattern to them. Presumably the spammers just trawl directories of domains and select them at random?

Anyway, thanks everyone for all your help.

04-10-2006, 20:12	#10
Anastasis Inactive Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 102	Re: my domain being used for spam email Thanks all for your responses. It is encouraging to know that I am not alone in being hit like this and in particular by the same spammer, but of course it is annoying and frustrating for all of us. In answer to Andy, thanks for your help and advice on this. I realise that the spammers are not using my domain, but are spoofing it by putting a name (which seems to be series of random characters) @ my domain in the reply address of their emails. At the moment I am getting 10-15 a day, all from the same source it would appear, but all bounces from addresses they have sent to that are being returned to me. If that is the quantity of bounces they are getting, then goodness knows how many in total they are sending to valid addresses all of which are seeing my domain as the sender of spam email which is very annoying. Yes, I did think of stopping the catch-all forwarding on my domain, but to do that as you said I need to find all the addresses I have used and want to receive email for, which I think is likely to be a big task and has the potential for missing some. Whilst it would be good to not have these emails bouncing to me, they are now mostly being redirected into my spam folder, and at least I can continue to monitor their frequency and also respond to anyone who might complain that I am sending them spam. Is there no way of detecting the real sender of these emails? I have had a look at the source data in the emails, but cannot fathom who this might be if that information is in there. The reason I ask is that maybe, if the spammer's ISP can be identified it might be possible to contact the ISP to show them that one of their accounts is spamming. Maybe some ISPs have anti-spam policies in place that cover misuse by their account holders. In answer to SMHarman, my domain was purchased from 123-reg and is currently hosted with Dream Hosting, so I don't think there is any pattern to them. Presumably the spammers just trawl directories of domains and select them at random? Anyway, thanks everyone for all your help.